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Car fire spreads to Chelmsford business (VIDEO)

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
05/11/2013 09:21:39 AM EDT

CHELMSFORD -- Firefighters knocked down a car fire Friday afternoon in Central Square that extended to a building.

Deputy Fire Chief Mike Donoghue said the driver of the vehicle, which had started smoking, pulled over and got out of the vehicle safely. The vehicle was stopped close to a building on Cushing Place that houses an accounting business.

The flames shot from the vehicle and landed on the building. The car was totaled and the building suffered moderate damage, Donoghue said.

"We were able to knock it down fairly quickly and prevent a larger fire," said Donoghue.

He said the business was closed Friday and nobody was in the building.

Roberta Witts, owner of Picture Yourself Framing, three doors down from the accounting firm, said the owner of the building was trying to put out the fire before firefighters arrived and remarked it seemed like it took firefighters to reach the scene.

Donoghue said firefighters from nearby Engine 1 were out on a call in Vinal Square. He said it was fortunate the Engine 5 was open in South Chelmsford to respond.

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